Abstract Composite components combine the benefits of different materials, leading to improved product properties, enhanced resource- and energy efficiency widening spectrum. Draw-forging is unique combination deep-drawing cold forging, where a core material encapsulated within thin sheet metal blank. Previously, basic draw-forging process only allowed covering shaft tip, covered length was lim...

Folding of flat sheets of material into intricate three-dimensional structures provides a new technology for production of cores and sandwich structures of high strength/weight and/or strength/volume ratios. Geometric patterns are generated by transforming flat sheets of materials (traditional or composite) by imposing a permanent fold at specific edges of tessellated sheets. This might result ...

Although deep drawing process in the macro scale are well developed, the known concepts cannot be applied to micro deep drawing through directly scale down the specimen and tooling size due to the so-called size effects. Therefore, tensile test and micro deep drawing experiments were conducted to generate the knowledge for the micro deep drawing process. Stainless steel 304 foils with 4 differe...

1.1 History Sheet metal operations have been in existence since 8000 B.C. (Fries-Knoblach, 1999). Due to its long history, sheet metalworking is, unfortunately, often seen as archaic and uninteresting. That metal sheets can be transformed with the aid of robust machines into fancy consumer products with tight tolerances is inconceivable to many. Yet, sheet metal operations are used for producin...